Bohemianism Quotes

If one defends the bourgeois, philistine virtues, one does not defend them merely from the demonism or bohemianism of the artist but from the present bourgeoisie itself. (Lionel Trilling)
I guess I was the most unbohemian of all bohemians. My bohemianism consisted of not wanting to get involved with the stupid stuff that I thought people wanted you to get involved with - ... namely America...
Amiri Baraka
I guess I was the most unbohemian of all bohemians. My bohemianism consisted of not wanting to get involved with the stupid stuff that I thought people wanted you to get involved with - ... namely America... Dwight Eisenhower, McCarthyism and all those great things.
Amiri Baraka
Imperialism Capitalism Faith Rationalism Primacy of the Spirit Materialism Idealism Sensualism Will-to-Power Will-to-Riches World as Object of Organization World as Object of Plunder Rank as Social Distinction Society as a Collection of Individuals Fulfillment of Duty "Pursuit of Happiness" Absolute Will to Biological Fertility Race-Suicide, Birth Control, Puritanism, Bohemianism Absolute Will to Increase Power Surrender to the World Hegemony of the West Hierarchy Equality Discipline Freedom, Ethical Laissez-Faire Authority Parliamentarism Aristocracy Plutocracy Society as Organic Unity Class War Sexual Polarity Feminism Europe as Imperium Petty Statism Europe as Nation Chauvinism Europe as Fatherland Petty Nationalism Order Freedom Stability Constant Motion, Business Cycles Art Practiced in Conformity with the Cultural Task "L'Art pour l'Art" Politico-Military Expansion Financial-Military-Economic Expansion.
Francis Parker Yockey
Philip Larkin, a big, fat, bald librarian at the University of Hull, was unquestionably England's unofficial laureate: our best-loved poet since the war; better loved for our poet than John Betjeman, who was loved also for his charm, his famous beagle, his patrician Bohemianism and his televisual charisma, all of which Larkin notably lacked. Ten years later, Larkin is now something like a pariah, or an untouchable.
Martin Amis